Finding Your Voice as a Beginning Marriage and Family Therapist

ISBN-13: 9781138290457 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 176 str.

Jessica Chenfeng; Dana Stone

Opis

Finding Your Voice as a Beginning Marriage and Family Therapist provides support to early career marriage and family therapists who are seeking to find their sense of value and contribution to the field while connecting more authentically with themselves and those around them. In Part I, the authors write about their own experience as early MFTs, as well as those of their supervisees. They detail how their social location shaped these experiences, and what their professional development process has looked like. Part II includes a literature review of trainees' firsthand perspectives of difficult training situations--including experiences of disempowerment, microaggressions, and overall dissatisfaction with a supervisor or the supervision process--and a chapter on what researchers have reported about meaningful and fulfilling training experiences from the perspectives of both the therapist in training and the supervisor. Both chapters include concrete examples to help supervisees become more empowered in culturally sensitive training environment. Part III includes chapters on how to develop the Self-of-the-Trainee, how to communicate around challenging topics, how to establish a foundation for a meaningful career as an MFT, and how to avoid burnout. Throughout the book, concrete tips and suggestions on being a successful supervisee are provided.